[IPython-dev] More %magics - numpy print options

[Robert Kern]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:28, Andrew Straw <strawman at astraw.com> wrote:
> On this subject, sympy has a very nice autodetection-of-terminal-width
> feature that would be very cool to port into the numpy printing stuff
> and/or ipython. Being completely oblivious of where this should best
> live and being completely lacking in spare time, all I can do is mention
> that it would be a cool feature to port into ipython or numpy.

IPython does have a function for this, too, on UNIX systems with
curses (sympy also uses curses on UNIX but also has a Windows
implementation using ctypes and the Windows API). I also found another
UNIX implementation that only uses the fcntl and termios modules,
which may be more ubiquitous than curses.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-February/365594.html

-- 
Robert Kern

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